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01: Pink is the new Edge~
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Something whispered in her ear, drawing her to the nearest body of water. The young blonde girl stared at the fence where the pool called to her, telling her to swim with the many souls that perished under the surface tension of chlorine water. The butterfly princess ignored the cries and sorrow, tuning to the synthesizers playing from a speaker. The breeze carried her long silver gray hair and tangled with the petals and scattered leaves as she extended her dainty hand to heaven.
All she did was dance on her toes, yellow eyes watching her step subtlety. She spun on the ground and tapped the concrete gently before she took flight across the plains. She lands on one foot and she bends stretching her left arm down and slowly motioning up to the ground.
“And… Cut!” A Japanese girl with curly hair standing behind a camera on a tripod shouted clapping her hands together. “That was a good take, Amethyst,” she said excitedly and walked over to hand her a bottle with pink lemonade. “Very shiny!”
Amethyst sighed and wiped the sweat off her brow and accepted her drink. “Thanks, Kaori. I hope this one will turn out better than the last one,” she said before drinking. “Oh come on Amethyst, they love ya!” Kaori exclaimed and began to store the gear in a duffle bag.
“At least this will help you...” The teen blonde smiled softly before taking another swig at her colorful drink “It will help us more if your mother would hook us up with the shiny stuff,” the Japanese teen hinted.
“Kaori, mother dearest does not trust me yet with expensive equipment,” Amethyst explained to her for the umpteen time, again. “I said it could help, I am not insisting.” Kaori is one of her first and best friends. She is very blunt and very in with the fashion industry. They were once a married couple when they were little till they made their third friend and got divorced. “Right,” Amethyst laughed and removed her butterfly hair piece.
“Well now we have to wait for the rain, the forecast tells us that it will be dry for the next couple of days,” Kaori checked her phone for the weather update.
“Or we can make our own rain machine…” Amethyst suggested.
“Amethyst, I want my work to look genuine, you know it will look bad,” Kaori said. So, what do we do now?” the Asian teen added as she updated the social media following on their latest project.
“We could check the tape before we call it quits,” the blonde teen said.
“You are your mother’s daughter,” Kaori said with a grin.
“It’s common sense,” Amethyst chuckled. Kaori looked off the distance towards another home and noticed a car parking in the garage. “Hey, Marie is home!” Kaori shouted, and both girls made a beeline to her house. “Marie!” Amethyst exclaimed, “Hey! We finished recording how about we go to the park later?”
“Sure! Let me change from my scouts uniform!” Marie, overall, was a sweet girl. She was a little slow, but she was also a helpless romantic.
The girls followed in Marie to her room. “How was the scout meeting?” Kaori asked.
“It was pretty rough. Kimberly had to quit because she got pregnant,” Marie spilled the tea as Amethyst and Kaori made themselves comfortable on the bed. “What??” Amethyst was rather shocked at the revelation, however, Kaori saw it coming considering how much Marie had told them about her promiscuity. “I doubt she quit, I think they just kicked her out,” Marie said.
“Kaori, that’s obvious.” The blonde teen glared at Kaori. “Obviously they will say she quit to avoid tea and gossip.”
“It is the best way to start gossip,” the Asian teen said. “Have you ever wondered what happens to your female classmates when they suddenly vanish?”
“They graduated…” Amethyst deadpanned. “Besides, why should we even meddle?”
“Says the psycho that stalks the priest…” Marie chuckled as she threw on a fresh new shirt and shorts. Amethyst choked on her breath at the very comment. “That is not true!!” she denied.
“Oh come on, we all would let him touch us inappropriately,” Kaori commented as she stuck her nose in one of Marie’s teen magazines. “Oh, dear, the flare jean is disgusting with flat shoes…” Kaori voiced her thoughts quietly.
“I bet he can pull off the flare jean with that nice ass,” Marie fantasies as she strapped on her sneakers.
“That’s shiny,” Kaori smirked. “Not it is not! Amethyst said, outraged and embarrassed. “How much you want to bed Amethyst dreams of getting crushed in between his--” Amethyst interrupted Kaori with a loud squeal and slapped her to cease her unwanted comments. Kaori and Marie just laughed at how ridiculously flushed Amethyst was at something so silly.
“Alright, let’s go before Amethyst loses her mind,” Kaori said chuckling.
“You guys are not shiny!!” Amethyst shouted.
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The girls were running around in the neighborhood park. The one thing they loved was the swing set, and they would compete against each other for who would swing the highest and who could jump the farthest. “Watch closely, mortals! Kaori will soar back to Japan!” the Asian shouted as she launched herself from the swing and landed five feet away.
“Japan is awfully closer than we thought…” Marie said astonished. “Why don’t you beat that then!?” Kaori shouted angrily. Marie swing back and forth gaining momentum and once she launched herself she crashed landed on the sand face first two feet away. The sweet French descendant spat the sand and whined in pain. Kaori just laughed at her misfortune. Amethyst jumped off her chair and helped Marie onto her feet. “Marie, are you okay?” The teen asked.
“I will be fine…” The sweet girl scout promised and dusted herself off. “Please, when you jump off the swing, kick Kaori for me…” Marie added.
“I rather kick her where it hurts…” Amethyst winked and took her seat on the swing. Kaori and Marie watched Amethyst swing back and forth gaining speed and force before flying off eight feet into the air. Expanding her arms gracefully as the wind carries her hair and frills before landing on her toes.
“Whoa! That was so shiny!” Marie squealed excitedly.
“Show off…” Kaori spat in jealousy.
Amethyst noticed a faint glow in the bushes near a house beside the park. The house belonging to none other the beloved Father Demos. The teen decided to investigate rather than indulge in the bickering of Marie and Kaori. There were no signs of the priest but from the corner of her eye, she could see a sprite of color in the bushes. Her chest swelled with emotion and her mind raced with thoughts and possibilities but she never could think of what it could be.
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
“Amethyst! Where did you go?” She heard Kaori, but she didn’t answer, her throat was in knots. The orb floated around the bushes. More orbs gleamed through the bushes and headed towards her. These orbs of rainbows had slim human bodies and wings, “Fairies…” Amethyst said in a hush as if it were a secret.
“Hey! Amethyst! Where are you?” Kaori called again.
“What if she’s dead?” Marie asked.
“Doubt it,” the Asian scoffed.
Amethyst could hear her friends call her but she couldn’t move, she was mesmerized by the floating light show the fairies gave her. It was as though they didn’t notice her, but one certainly did. This one had a purple and black dress made of lace. Her hair was blond and long and her eyes were black with long yellow lashes. Her fingers and feet were rather big for her size. Her wings were transparent with a dash of glitter. She looked like a hologram but upon Amethyst touching her, she felt solid and all too real. She gasped loudly and took a step back as the fairy giggled.
“Marie, I think I heard her.”
“I did, too.”
Both girls emerged from the park and into the priest’s garden and they too fell in shock. “W-what!? What is that?!” Marie shouted in disbelief. “Fairies…” Amethyst whispered again and held her hands for the fairy to approach her.
“Fairies?!” Marie and Kaori screamed. All but one of the fairies tried to hide, the one left was standing in Amethyst’s palms. As the others hid in the bushes, the lights dispersed. “Fairies can’t be real!” Kaori shouted as she tugged at her curly thick hair.
“T-they always did…” Amethyst was still stuck whispering.
“L-let's go, Amethyst! Before something even worse shows up!” Marie said, looking around feeling like she will be caught in the lie and be punished. Amethyst nodded and ran with her friends back to her house.
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The three girls caught their breath in Amethyst’s living room couch. “Can we agree that we all saw fairies…?” Amethyst said after a long cutting-edge silence.
“Whatever it was, we can safely say we all saw it…” Kaori managed to say. All the girls got comfortable removing their shoes and retreated to Amethyst’s room.
“Do we tell someone about it?” Marie asked.
“I don’t know… I know that when I was a child, I could see them…” Amethyst answered.
“You mean before the electroshock therapy?” Kaori asked.
"Y-yeah… Those were distasteful memories," Amethyst whispered.
“Now I feel guilty…” Marie said softly.
“It’s okay… I just… Am I relapsing? Father Demos told my mother that there was no point to electroshock therapy because the patients relapsed after a period…” Amethyst voiced her concern
"I don’t think so. I think what we saw is evidence that what you saw by the pool was actually real," Kaori reasoned.
“Then… could it mean that the people drowning in the pool were-” Marie attempted to say but Kaori quickly interjected, “the result of an actual demon activity…”
“Are the fairies demons, too?” Marie asked further.
“I don’t know! I’m no expert in the paranormal!” Kaori shouted.
“I feel lied to.” Amethyst said. She felt a soft touch on her cheek and something light standing on her shoulder. Both Marie and Kaori screamed.
“The Fairy! The Fairy will eat us!” Marie shouted. Amethyst noticed the fairy on her shoulder and she slapped it off. She didn’t look too happy about the violent approach and got into Amethyst face, crossing her arms.
“It followed you!” Marie squealed.
“What do I do?!” Amethyst stumbled on the spot screaming in terror.
“I got it!” Kaori caged it inside a glass mason jar, sealing it shut.
“Would she be able to breathe in there…?” Amethyst asked, watching the fairy trying to push off the lid of the jar.
“I… Do fairies even breath?” Marie asked.
“Let’s punch holes on the lid to find out,” the teen blond said. The fairy had given up and sat on the bottom of the jar watching as Amethyst punched a few holes over the lid with a hammer and a screwdriver. “There.”
“What do we do with it?” Marie asked.
“Wait… We found them in that Jesus-enthusiast’s garden right? Does the priest even know he has fairies?” Kaori asked.
“I think we should tell him,” Marie answered.
“No! If we actually tell him we were in his garden snooping around. We’ll get in trouble!” Amethyst explained.
“Then what will you do with it?” Kaori wondered.
Amethyst stared at the fairy pressing her hands against the glass. “I will keep her…”
“What? Why?” Kaori and Marie asked.
“I always wanted a fairy companion, and besides, I don’t think she's evil. If she followed me home that would mean she likes me. Right?” Amethyst asked as she looked at the fairy. The teen blond released her from the jar and the fairy rushed to her shoulder and hid behind her neck.
“Well I guess it’s okay, what do you want to name it?” Marie asked.
“Pixie.” Amethyst answered holding her palm for the fairy to fly over to.
“Do you know that pixies and fairies are different beings?” Kaori said.
“So? It’s still a name and I like it,” Amethyst answered.
“Okay then” Kaori was not going to argue with Amethyst over a name, she knows where that leads and she will never trek in that direction again.
“Miss Zetterberg!” The girls went silent when they heard a man calling.
“Who could that be…?” Amethyst wondered out loud.
“Whoever it is, hide the fairy,” Kaori whispered. Amethyst nodded and placed the fairy inside the jar to make sure it wouldn’t follow her.
Amethyst walked out the balcony. Outside stood the priest with a basket hanging in his arm. He wore a teal robe with white and gold trims and detailing. His bronze splendor as if it were kissed by the sun, and his eyes green as the sea hidden behind thin square frames. The priest ran a hand through his slick short and black as night hair. “Good afternoon, Miss Zetterberg.” Amethyst wanted to die. Out of all the people it had to be him, Father Demos. She smiled and played it off. “Hello! What can I do for you?”
“Do you mind coming down? I have something for you.”
“Okay! Let me get my shoes.” She ran back to the living room and whispered, “It’s father Demos.”
“What? Him? What does he want?” Kaori asked.
“I don’t know, I’ll be back. Keep the fairy secure…” Amethyst said before she left the room and ran down stairs to greet the priest.
“Sorry it took so long,” she chuckled.
He smiled and stared at her feet. “You couldn't find your shoes?” he asked sarcastically. Amethyst was caught off guard, she forgot to get her shoes back on.
“Sorry! I-I ran inside and I couldn't find them at the moment,” she improvised.
“No matter, I won’t keep you for long,” he said with a gentle smile and voice so serene like a lullaby. He handed her the basket he was holding on to and said, “your mother won’t be home till late, so, I thought perhaps you and your friends would be hungry. I made white rice, black beans and turkey breast.”
“Oh! How generous! I didn’t know you were home-” she stopped talking when an unsettling thought went through her head. There were no sign of him being home, even his car wasn't in the garage. She asked him, “How did you know my friends were home…?”
He laughed. “You three are inseparable, I would be surprised if you were not with them. Not only that but you are very loud when playing in my garden.” The catholic neighbor smirked playfully watching her expression collapse into fear.
“I-.. but we… I didn’t see your car…?” she stuttered trying to fit a thousand questions into one sentence.
“I am home. My car is at the mechanic, so I am currently held captive in my humble home.” Father Demos laughed sweetly and said, “Don’t feel frightened, Amethyst. I am not angry you explored my garden.”
“We are sorry, Father Demos, but we had a good reason to do so!”
“Really?” his expression faltered to one of surprise. Amethyst thought about it before her tongue spilled the tea. If she told him she witnessed fairies in his garden again, she will be strapped down in a nuthouse till they can shock her imagination back to normal.
“W-we… I thought… saw…” She swallowed thickly before giving her final reason to be, “We were playing hide and seek… sorry…” The priest pressed his hand delicately over her cheek. The sheer contact was hot and sparkly. Her heart made too many flips, and she was sure to pass out. “Merxill ehnma, sulim naj... Stalagmite.” Her heart beat so wildly she barely heard what he said to her, in any case, it was music to her ears. She wanted nothing more but to lean in and answer his song with a dance of her own and bask in each other's presence.
“R-right… Thank you for the meal, Father Demos.”
The priest smiled warmly and spoke, “it’s my pleasure, Miss Zetterberg.” He crossed her. “God bless you, little lamb," he added before he left. “Amen.” Amethyst blushed, watching him walk along the path, around the neighborhood and back to his home. She didn’t want to admit it but she always had a platonic crush on the priest. He was gentle, thoughtful, honest, and she even dared to say he wasn’t human. She knows it was hopeless, but it didn't stop her from imagining how it would’ve been between them would’ve been.